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The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by Professor of History David Nasaw 9780618154463
RRP: $39.88$31.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780618154463Author Professor of History David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Mariner... -
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach 9780803260979
RRP: $35.68$24.05"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."-Janet Flanner, New YorkerSylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with... -
Under the Wire by Paul Conroy
RRP: $27.28$17.18NOW A MAJOR FEATURE DOCUMENTARYDetermined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin,one of the foremost war correspondents of her... -
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line by Judith Mackrell
RRP: $23.08$16.19'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.' -SpectatorGoing with the Boys follows six intrepid women as their lives and careers intertwined on the front lines of the Second World War.Martha Gellhorn... -
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992 by Tina Brown
RRP: $27.28$17.18'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious' Evening Standard'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl StreepIt's 1983. A young Englishwoman arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned in the hope that she can save Conde Nast's troubled new flagship... -
Anxiety for Beginners: A Personal Investigation by Eleanor Morgan
RRP: $23.08$14.95Foyles paperback of the year, Anxiety for Beginners offers a vivid insight into the often crippling impact of anxiety disorders, a condition that is frequently invisible, shrouded in shame and misunderstood. It serves as a guide for those who live with... -
Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher by Oren Margolis 9781789147797
RRP: $37.70$27.13Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest figure in the history of the printed book: in Venice, Europe's capital of printing, he invented the italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than anyone before or since, as well as Hypnerotomachia... -
Confessions: Life Re-examined by Edward Stourton
RRP: $42.00$30.01'Thoughtful, witty, occasionally comic, often effortlessly profound - not a conventional journalistic memoir.' Sunday Times'If you value the perspective and judgment of one who has covered, often from the frontline, the major events of the past four... -
The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is by Rhyannon Styles
RRP: $23.08$14.81'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop hearing about. Rhyannon Styles will do for transgender what Matt Haig did for mental health. Elle columnist Rhyannon... -
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life by Hella Pick 9781474613750
RRP: $20.98$13.61'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the great political correspondents of our world - eloquent, enlightening, exhilarating' PHILIPPE SANDSA trailblazer for women in journalism, Hella... -
Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
RRP: $20.98$14.07Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and... -
How to Be a Husband by Tim Dowling
RRP: $23.08$16.32The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.* *Anything resembling advice should be taken at reader's own risk. You'll never get divorced if you... -
Personal History by Katharine Graham
RRP: $31.48$19.57As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.In... -
The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood 9781787330511
RRP: $31.48$28.25** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Indecently entertaining' Guardian 'Hilarious' The Times I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a magazine, and I wrote for magazines for a living. My specialist subject... -
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer 9780679457527
RRP: $63.00$41.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 1998 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679457527Author Jon... -
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination by Amy Tan 9780007585571
RRP: $20.98$7.37From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The... -
Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2019 by Kevin Myers
RRP: $37.78$31.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372612Author Kevin MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Mother Project by Sophie Beresiner
RRP: $31.48$17.18"Impossible to put down, makes you laugh and cry, Sophie's story is inspirational. It gives us so much hope and encouragement. I don't think we would be where we are on our own journey without her advice." OLLIE... -
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson 9781786899972
RRP: $35.68$24.32Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to... -
Time and Tide by Charlie Bird
RRP: $35.68$24.09A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. In 2021, Charlie Bird was diagnosed with motor neurone disease - a man whose voice was so synonymous with his career faced losing it completely. Yet... -
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
RRP: $23.08$16.19Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicious civil war, and then as an... -
Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love by Fergal Keane
RRP: $23.08$15.23A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past. 2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A... -
The Year of the End: A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction by Anne Theroux 9781785787393
RRP: $27.28$17.47'A moving and absorbing account' Adam Buxton'Scorching ... a brave book' Helen Brown, Telegraph'A wise and vivid memoir of a disintegrating marriage and a study of the role of the spouse in the life of a literary giant' Fiona Sturges, i Paper18TH JANUARY... -
D.V. by Diana Vreeland
RRP: $35.68$19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062024404Author Diana VreelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 191g -
Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell
RRP: $35.68$31.73Candace Bushnell gets personal in her new memoir - an investigation into what happens when a woman of a certain age (ok, let's call it 'middle') finds herself not-so-young, free and single in the city.MILFs, cougars, love, sex, divorce - Candace's... -
Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell
RRP: $27.28$18.77Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... -
The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan
RRP: $31.48$23.00The Insider dominated the media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.1 bestseller. Not only did it fill thousands of column inches with its revelations about prominent political and showbiz figures, it was critically acclaimed across... -
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club by Julie Welch
RRP: $20.98$13.08When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart in her mouth, Julie waited for the voice on the other end of the line to declare it passable. She'd done it. She was the first ever female... -
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
RRP: $20.98$13.94'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter 'She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this' Philip Pullman 'Vibrates with outrage' The Times ... -
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace
RRP: $52.50$34.50An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and... -
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
RRP: $35.70$20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701214Author Jean-Dominique BaubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
RRP: $31.48$20.58Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of... -
Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell 9780349143613
RRP: $20.98$13.61'Funny and honest dispatches from the world of modern dating' Vogue'Bushnell's voice is as knowing and sharp as ever' Washington Post'Bittersweet, amusing and well observed' Viv Groskop, Guardian'Fuelled by chilled rose, Sex and the City scribe Candace... -
An Eye on Ireland: A Journey Through Social Change - New and Selected Journalism by Justine McCarthy 9781399729161
RRP: $41.98$30.83'For those of us around from the beginning, this collection jolts like jump-leads to the complacent heart. For the many who were not, dive into these columns from an Ireland of not so long ago. It's an eye-opener.'MIRIAM LORDFOR FOUR DECADES, Justine... -
Mr Jones: The Man Who Kew Too Much: The Life and Death of Gareth Jones by Martin Shipton
RRP: $41.98$35.32Murdered in Mongolia in 1935 on the orders of Stalin, the Welsh investigative journalist Gareth Jones is a national hero in Ukraine for reporting the truth about the Holodomor (the Soviet Union's politically-driven famine that killed millions) and is... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: $42.00$30.85At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $105.00$70.33A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot... -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 9780679785897
RRP: $27.28$20.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679785897Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)... -
Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $35.68$25.79Discover the life of one of the twentieth century's most significant and notorious war correspondents, and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.Martha Gellhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century; as a young woman she... -
Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 8: 1936-1938 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $105.00$101.66Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man. He gives talks, lectures, readings and broadcasts, and even school prize-day addresses. As editor and publisher, his work is unrelenting, commissioning works ranging from Michael Roberts's The...